Archbishop Oscar Romero was gunned down inside his own church 38 years ago.
Archbishop Oscar Romero was gunned down inside his own church 38 years ago. Soon he’ll become El Salvador’s first saint
March 23, 2018 6.32am EDT Updated March 23, 2018 11.05am EDT
On March 24, 1980, the archbishop of San Salvador was shot inside his own church in a deliberate, cold-blooded murder that shocked the world.
Now, almost 40 years later, the Catholic Church is preparing to make the slain religious leader a saint. In early March, Pope Francis approved a miracle attributed to Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero – the spontaneous healing of a woman in a coma – paving the way for his canonization.
Many Latin American Catholics thought this moment would never come. Romero was a human rights activist whose bold opposition to his country’s military dictatorship got him assassinated. The Vatican had stalled his canonization process for decades.
Why is Romero’s sainthood so controversial?
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